Pettiness is the tendency of people without large purposes.

Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.

Liberalism is wrong because it doesn't work. If a company is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

Romney, supposedly the Republican most electable next November, is a recidivist reviser of his principles who is not only becoming less electable; he might damage GOP chances of capturing the Senate... Republicans may have found their Michael Dukakis.

Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they are remarkably unchanged over nearly a century and a half. Of how many American institutions can that be said?

Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.

Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.